Artificial intelligence and mental health
Grant Blashki & Simon Lock
When we began to reflect on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) for mental health care, immediately there were a whole range of concerns that leapt out at us. How ...
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Khoa Cao and Luke Oakden-Rayner
It may surprise you, but the first dreams of artificial intelligence did not arise in the basements of an MIT engineering lab, or the cosy rooms of an Oxford college ...
Australia’s Children and Youth
Fiona Stanley
Putting children in the centre of our society acknowledges that all aspects of our future capacity depends upon us having the majority of our children and youth able to participate ...
Balancing the curriculum: teaching gratitude, hope and resilience
Lea Waters
Today's youth face many challenges, including pressures from school, peer groups, parents, marketing, and incessant ‘digital connectedness’ promoted by social media. Current research shows that many Australian adolescents suffer from ...
Best of the old and the new: a way forward for the food security dilemma?
Jill Gready
The challenge of assuring global food security for the world’s increasing population — estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050 — has been much discussed. Many solutions have been proffered, ...
Bioethics
Max Charlesworth
Terri Schiavo, an American woman aged 41 years, was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (“brain dead”) and was kept alive by a feeding tube. Her husband, Michael ...
Grant Blashki & Simon Lock
Artificial intelligence and mental health
When we began to reflect on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) for mental health care, immediately there were a whole range of concerns that leapt out at us. How ...
Susan A. Blashki
Maintaining harmony in families with later life decisions
My interest in older people began quite early in my own life for three reasons. The first because my mother became seriously ill in her late fifties and I already ...
Bruce Bonyhady
Adequate Support for People with a Disability
Kenny and thousands of other people with disabilities in Australia fall through a huge gap in our social services network, because their injury or disability is non-compensable. Because of this, ...
Graham Brown
Control and Eradication of Malaria: Past, Present and Future
To the great surprise of many well-informed people in developed countries, malaria remains a major problem in the world today. Although figures may not be very reliable, it was estimated ...
Susie Burke and Grant Blashki
Climate change anxiety and our mental health
The phrase inconvenient truth, made famous by Al Gore’s movie, has unfortunately for humanity turned out to be not only inconvenient and true, but quite prophetic about the climate. Climate ...
Edward Byrne
Health Systems in the 21st Century — Evolution or Revolution?
The ancient Chinese curse to live in changing times applies more to the health system in western countries than ever before. A number of factors are contributing to a period ...